Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Crown appeals sentence in Pritchard police assault
KAMLOOPS - The BC Criminal Justice Branch has confirmed it has filed an appeal of the sentences handed down to two men convicted of beating a Kamloops RCMP officer until he was unconscious. Jerry Lama...
Mar 15, 2017
North Shore BIA concerned about 'fixed' locations of mobile injection sites
KAMLOOPS - After Kamloops City Council unanimously endorsed the concept of two mobile injection sites on Tuesday, the North Shore Business Improvement Association is concerned about the mobile site be...
Mar 15, 2017
Sheriff shortage ships Kamloops guards to Victoria
KAMLOOPS - The head of the union representing sheriffs in BC says deputy sheriffs are being transported from Kamloops to Victoria to help cover a shortage there. BCGEU section chair Dean Purdy says th...
Mar 15, 2017
City Council shifts industrial tax rate with hope of stabilizing job force
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops City Council has passed a policy that it says will lead to more financial certainty to heavy industry in town. Council shifted the industrial tax rate on Tuesday, in response to co...
Mar 14, 2017
City Council endorses two mobile injection sites in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops is moving one step forward towards the reality of operating two mobile injection sites, voting unamimously at Tuesday’s Council meeting to endorse the mobile site...
Mar 14, 2017
School board to enter negotiations over spring break
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops-Thompson school board will be entering negotiations with teachers and CUPE support staff to decide once and for all whether there will be a one week spring break or two. Curren...
Mar 14, 2017
Distracted driving blitz nabs 50+ offenders
KAMLOOPS - RCMP have released the results of a distracted driving blitz conducted at several Kamloops intersections last week. The two-day blitz resulted in officers handing out 52 tickets for drivers...
Mar 14, 2017
Kamloops road rage incident escalates into gun confrontation
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP have some tips for drivers after a road rage incident escalated into a Kamloops man having two guns pointed at him yesterday. Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says the man was minding his ow...
Mar 14, 2017
Spring Break- one week or two?
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops School Board still can’t seem to make up its mind on whether or not it wants a one-week spring break or two. Trustees had voted earlier this year to go back to a one-week spr...
Mar 14, 2017
One man dead after North Shore collision early this morning
KAMLOOPS - RCMP continue to look into the death of a 36 year old Kamloops pedestrian on Westsyde Road last night. The man was crossing the road near the 8th Street interchange when he was hit by a veh...
Mar 14, 2017
